Conduit for cable or electric railways



(No Model.)

, W. NIER.

- GONDUIT FOR CABLE 0R ELBGTRIGRAILWAYS.

No. 374,315. Patented Dec. 6,,1887.

ATTORNEY.

N" PETERS. Moi-MW. WWO D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM NIER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

CONDUiT FOR CABLE OR ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,315, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed December 30, l886. Serial 1T0. 222,061. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM NIER, of Kansas City, Jackson county, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conduits for Cable or Electric Railways, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part thereof. 7 The said invention may be said to consist in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the manner of carrying out the invention, Figure l is a transverse section through the conduit. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same, and showing the arrangement of the road-bed; and Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of the conduit.

A indicates the sections of the conduit, which may be cast of any convenient size and length,with end flanges, G, by means of which latter the dilferent sections may be bolted together to make a continuous conduit, and with pockets E, cast integral with the body of the sections, 'for receiving the inner ends of the crossties D, as shown. The pockets E are located at suitable intervals along the upper side of the sections, on opposite sides of the grip-opening 9, and their sides project at a right angle to the body of the sections. Suit able bolts or other fastening devices are passed through the upper side of the pockets and engage the inner ends of the ties and hold them firmly in position. The outer ends of said ties carry the stringers F, which are to be secured theretoin any appropriate Way. Thus the sections of the conduit are made to hold the tracktimbers in proper position without the intervention of the usual yokes, and to constitute a comparatively undeviatinggage to hold them in constant relation to each other,and by which construction a cable road can be built much cheaper than they have heretofore. It will be observed that the cross-ties D do not extend across the roadway, but that they are comparatively short, and their inner ends terminate in the pockets E" on the outer surface of the sections A. The sections are also constructed with a longitudinal opening, 9, for the passage of the grip in their upper side and with upwardly-projecting flanges 10, which are located on opposite sides of said opening and are provided with bolt-holes 0'. Slotirons B, which may be of any approved form, are secured to flanges 10 by means of bolts 0, thus fastening said slotirons to the body of the cast-iron sections on opposite sides of said longitudinal opening.

I do not herein broadly claim a conduit for cable or electric roads constructed of cast-iron sections with a longitudinally-extending gripopening; but

What I claim is A cast-iron section for a conduit, having a longitudinal opening for the passage of the .gripin its upper side, and upwardly-projecting flanges 10, combined with slot-irons which are fastened to said flanges on opposite sides of said longitudinal opening, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. WILLIAM NIER.

. \Vitne'sses:

R. B. WILCOX, H. A. HARBAUGH. 

